A Random Movies and Stars Quiz

Answer: Church

The 1989 movie "Pet Sematary" was based on a 1983 Stephen King novel. The Creed family moved from Chicago, Illinois to rural Ludlow, Maine. The Creeds left town for Thanksgiving and the family cat, Church, was hit by a truck and killed. And so began an increasingly creepy series of events.

Answer: Martin

Four "Lethal Weapon" movies were released between 1987 and 1998. The series focused on two LAPD detectives played by Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson played a free-spirited former Special Forces soldier named Martin Riggs.

Answer: Buckshot George

The 1990 movie "Young Guns II" followed the adventures of Emilio Estevez's Billy the Kid and his posse known as the Regulators. The Regulators were a group of six highly skilled gunmen who were avenging the death of John Tunstall. A farmhand named Hendry William French was recruited into the Regulators. Billy the Kid gave Hendry William French the nickname "Buckshot George".

Answer: Heat

The 1995 film "Heat" was a crime thriller directed by Michael Mann. The movie featured an ensemble cast including Val Kilmer, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Tom Sizemore. In the movie's final sequence, Pacino's Vincent Hanna has a gunfight with De Niro's Neil McCauley at an airport. Hanna won the gunfight and took McCauley's hand as he died.

Answer: Overlook Hotel

"The Shining" was a 1980 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1977 novel written by Stephen King. In the movie, writer Jack Torrance took a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Jack's mental health worsened during his stay at the hotel, and he eventually met his end freezing to death after getting lost in the hotel grounds during a blizzard, while chasing his family with an axe.

Answer: Bill Pullman

The 1996 film "Independence Day" was directed by Roland Emmerich. An extra-terrestrial spaceship entered Earth's orbit on July 2, 1996. Two days later, United States President Thomas Whitmore (played by Bill Pullman) led a squadron of airplanes to destroy the spaceship and save humanity. The 2016 movie "Independence Day: Resurgence" was a sequel to the 1996 film.

Answer: Verne Troyer

In the "Austin Powers" film series, Austin Powers repeatedly faced his nemesis Doctor Evil. Both characters were played by Mike Myers. During the second Austin Powers film, Doctor Evil was given a pint-size clone of himself. This clone (played by Verne Troyer) was called Mini-Me.

Answer: Henry Evans

The 1993 movie "The Good Son" starred Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood. Macaulay Culkin's Henry Evans and his family got a visit from his cousin Mark Evans (Elijah Wood). Henry began displaying psychopathic behavior which Mark couldn't understand. At the climatic ending of the movie, Susan Evans saved Henry while letting her son, Mark, fall off a cliff to his death.

Answer: His buttocks

The 1994 film "Forrest Gump" was adapted from a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The titular character enlisted into the U.S. Army after graduating from the University of Alabama.

Forrest Gump was sent to Vietnam to serve in the Mekong Delta. Gump's platoon was ambushed and he courageously saved a few of his wounded platoon mates. Gump was shot in his buttocks during the rescues.

Gump was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. He showed his buttocks wound to President Lyndon B. Johnson during the ceremony.

Answer: Saint Bernard

The 1983 movie "Cujo" was adapted from a 1981 novel by Stephen King. The Trenton family moved to Castle Rock, Maine, where they met a local auto mechanic named Joe Camber. Camber had a pet Saint Bernard dog named Cujo, and the dog became infected with rabies and began a killing spree. Donna Trenton eventually killed the dog.